More Than Words

Words. They're all in the dictionary, it's simply up to you to string them together in interesting ways, right?

Well, no. Words are a medium for expressing a thought, feeling, or emotion such that another brain--somewhere else, somewhen else--interprets the meaning and, if you've really connected, experiences the sensation you're projecting.

I get lost in words. I love words. But it's their near psychic ability to bloom into something real inside someone else that gives words their real power.

If you take time to craft them with thought and intention they can mean so much to someone else, and that, my friend, is powerful.

For example, a contractor I work with let me know they are having to shut down part of their business. I wrote back, thanking them for the many years we worked together. They wrote back:

I love your sign off, “meanwhile, be well, do good, and be strong.” I really need that mantra right now!

Words. They matter.